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"Let us utilize them to better advantage and save the sleds in addition." "How?" asked Phineas Roebach. "Make sails of the robes and propel the sleds, riding on them, too," declared Mark. "Such wind as there is is pretty steadily at our backs. Why not?" "Why not, indeed?" shouted Jack. "Hurrah for Mark!" "A splendid thought, my boy," declared the professor.
If we find oil here we shall obtain a grant from the Government, or something like that." Just at that moment Mark Sampson was not particularly interested in the odd-looking Mr. Roebach or his business. "Blow your horn again, sir," he begged. "Call off your Indians. They may shoot our friends."
"That's what the earthquakes did for it," said Phineas Roebach. "You see those crevasses and some of 'em mighty deep? Well, they weren't here the last time I came this way." "She is in motion again, perhaps," suggested Professor Henderson. "It ain't been in motion for ages or, so the Aleuts say," responded the oil hunter. "But there looks now to be some sagging forward.
"The question of what has become of this great sea which once washed the shore we are now leaving," said Professor Henderson, seriously, "is a remarkably interesting one. The ocean may have merely receded for a few miles at the time of the volcanic eruption and earthquake which threw off this new planet." Phineas Roebach shook his head at this, but said nothing. "It may be," pursued Mr.
"If your party is all dressed as peculiarly as yourself, young sir," said Phineas Roebach, "my Aleuts could scarcely be blamed for taking a pot shot at them." Then he blew the horn mightily for the third time. The long twilight which preceded full day had now grown so strong as to reveal matters more plainly about the spot where Mark and Andy Sudds had disembarked from the flying machine.
"Looks as though the squaws and young ones had been sent off with the sleds. Why, those fellows are all armed, too!" "I expect that the strange happenings have puzzled and frightened the aborigines," suggested Professor Henderson. "We had better go down into the town and try to allay their fears." The hunter and Roebach evidently had their doubts regarding the wisdom of this move.
"Let's talk of something practical. We'll freeze to death down here very soon, if we don't starve first." "Very true," said the professor. "Mr. Roebach is eminently practical. We must give our attention to the immediate peril that menaces us." At this moment Andy came forward with two hatchets and an axe. "These are the things we want, I guess," he said, quietly.
"If the train did not arrive before that time," said Mark, "make up your mind that it never will arrive. Probably there is no Coldfoot on this planet." "There are some natives on hand, at least," said the professor, with satisfaction. They indeed saw several men moving about the town; but Phineas Roebach did not seem at all pleased. "I don't like that a bit," he declared.
The boys had resigned their turn at the chopping and returned to the shelf by now. Again Andy and Mr. Roebach were high above their heads, clinging to the slippery wall. For the ice on this side, while it was in the shade still, was becoming moist. The heat of the day was intense. Down the opposite wall of the crevasse tumbled a sheet of water which fairly hid the ice itself.
I do not believe that vegetation will start, and I look for nothing but frost during the hours of the sun's absence. But the cold night is not so intense as it was at first." "It's quite cold enough, just the same," Phineas Roebach grunted. "It was summer a few days ago the best summer this part of Alaska ever has.
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